Charles VI

American  

noun

1. Charles the MadorCharles the Well-beloved, 1368–1422, king of France 1380–1422.

2. 1685–1740, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1711–40; as Charles III, king of Hungary 1711–40.

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Charles VI British  

noun

1. known as Charles the Mad or Charles the Well-Beloved. 1368–1422, king of France (1380–1422): defeated by Henry V of England at Agincourt (1415), he was forced by the Treaty of Troyes (1420) to recognize Henry as his successor

2. 1685–1740, Holy Roman Emperor (1711–40). His claim to the Spanish throne (1700) led to the War of the Spanish Succession

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Example Sentences

The Roman Emperor Claudius is thought to have died from consuming the mushrooms in AD 54, and so is the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, in 1740.

From Scientific American • May 16, 2023

He went because the emperor, Charles VI, was a patron, ready to bankroll productions of Vivaldi’s operas.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2018

On 21 May, in a treaty sealed in the city of Troyes, the kings of England were recognised by the French king, Charles VI, as the rightful inheritors of the throne of France.

From BBC • Dec. 20, 2016

In 1711, Charles VI became the Hapsburg ruler.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

King of Spain, but the second still flourishes among us with Glory in the Person of the August Charles VI.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von